Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (* June 22, 1910 in Berlin; † December 18, 1995 in Hünfeld)
was a German civil engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and interdisciplinary scientist. With his development of the Z3 in 1941, Zuse built the world’s first functional, fully automatic, program-controlled and freely programmable computer operating in binary floating-point arithmetic. He is thus considered the father of today’s machine economy.